Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 09:18:29 +0200 (MET DST) From: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es (Borja Marcos) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2 Splashkit Message-ID: <9705140718.AA27833@sirius.we.lc.ehu.es> In-Reply-To: <33795F31.6B64@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> from "Pedro F. Giffuni" at May 13, 97 11:44:01 pm
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Anyway.. What's so good about graphical installation programs? I have had a small www server in a 386 with 8 MB RAM and an MDA card. Yes, that old card that couldn't even do graphics! The old IBM green phosphor monitor is quite cool. Borja. > > Warner Losh wrote: > > > > In message <3378F899.70DA@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co> "Pedro F. Giffuni" writes: > > : Ugh !! Are you suggesting we should include xdm on the installation > > : floppy? > > > Ooops! I forgot an smiley here. I know we want something like OS2's > installation but with an added screensaver. The only thing I really hope > is that no one decides to add color-ls as the default. > > > > No. However, an X server on a CDROM and some way for it to run in low > > res mode would be way cool. Many moderm machines can boot directly > > off a cdrom. > > > This idea seriously is not bad at all, we can keep it for the next > century. > > > None of this is to say that this is *REQUIRED*, just that if you have > > this available, it would be used. However, it is a lot of work... > > > > Warner > > Pedro. > -- *********************************************************************** Borja Marcos * Internet: borjam@we.lc.ehu.es Alangoeta, 11 1 izq * borjam@well.com 48990 - Algorta (Vizcaya) * borjamar@sarenet.es SPAIN * CompuServe: 100015,3502 ***********************************************************************
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